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The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. - Wole

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. – Wole Soyinka

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Well, the first thing is that truth and power for me form an antithesis, an antagonism, which will hardly ever be resolved. I can define in fact, can simplify the history of human society, the evolution of human society, as a contest between power and freedom. – Wole Soyinka

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Freedom
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Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie. – Wole Soyinka

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power
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Im not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That Ive never understood. – Wole Soyinka

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Morning
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You learn that you either are going to have a police state where you dont have any freedom left, or youre going to build a world that doesnt create terrorists – and that means a whole different way of getting along. – John Shelby Spong

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The thing is this: You got to have fun while youre fightin for freedom, cause you dont always win. – Molly Ivins

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Freedom

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. – Frederick Douglass, speech, Civil Rights Mass Meeting, Washington, D.C., 1883

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Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Epic poetry exhibits life in some great symbolic attitude. It cannot strictly be said to symbolize life itself, but always some manner of life. – Lascelles Abercrombie

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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. – Manuel Puig

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The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger. – Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Ive found that when the markets going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You wont get there by reading Now is the time to buy. – Peter Lynch

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